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Governor Pat McCrory is in trouble. McCrory’s stock has been plummeting since he took office, and he’s finally dug himself a hole too deep to climb out of.

After the governor signed HB2 into law in the dead of night, his approval numbers took a nose dive. The disastrous HB2 continues to damage North Carolina’s economy and reputation, and now as they attempt to defend Donald Trump’s disgusting comments caught on tape in 2005, which seem to mirror too well what they said HB2 would prevent, McCrory and his Republican cronies won’t back down.

At the same time that HB2 is keeping jobs out of the state, McCrory’s touting around his favorite talking point on the “Carolina Comeback,” or as the Triad Business Journal called it the “Carolina meh.” Advocating for policies right out of the Koch handbook, McCrory has prevented the economic growth North Carolina deserves.

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Governor Pat McCrory’s job-killing HB2 continues to wreak havoc on North Carolina’s economy. Every week the discriminative law accrues more damages — from the NCAA pulling out of the state to more than 50 big investors calling for its repeal, but even as it sinks him in the polls, McCrory won’t back down.

NC Republicans and McCrory could take action to repeal the legislation, but they are too busy blaming everyone else for the problems it’s caused to take responsibility for the catastrophic consequences. No wonder it’s being called a McCrory-made recession.

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The state saw millions of new jobs and economic revenue disappear after the governor signed the anti-LGBT legislation in the dead of the night. Meanwhile, Senator Richard Burr has tried to suggest that the law wasn’t affecting the business community, and now, the NC GOP is laughing off the losses with the Trumpian excuse of “political correctness,” ignoring how HB2 is hurting real people.

As long as Governor McCrory and his fellow Republicans are in charge, there’s no end in sight to the damages from his hateful and job-killing law.

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When Marco Rubio reneged on his pledge to not run for reelection in Florida, it was clear that his path would be linked with Donald Trump’s bull-in-a-china-shop mentality. What we didn’t know at the time was just how forcefully Rubio would support Trump and become an advocate for his racist, xenophobic policies that are dangerous to our country.

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Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence and Governor Pat McCrory have a lot in common. They both trust a man with the temperament of a two-year old with the nuclear codes, and they’ve both passed hateful anti-LGBT laws that have been disastrous for their states.

Before McCrory’s anti-LGBT HB2 law, there was Mike Pence’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Just like in North Carolina, Pence’s insistence on the “religious freedom” law stained Indiana and caused uproar in the business community. In fact, McCrory seems to have gotten his HB2 playbook from Pence, signing the legislation into law in the dead of night similarly to how the Indiana governor signed his at a secret meeting.

HB2 has cost North Carolina economic revenue and thousands of new job opportunities. Charlotte’s economic loss might be biggest of all — the 2017 NBA All-Star Game pulled out of the city after McCrory refused to repeal the heinous and […]

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Senator Marco Rubio claimed that the horrific shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub is what inspired him to go back on his word and run for reelection.

Less than two months later, Rubio’s done claiming the deaths and massacre at the gay nightclub motivated him to re-up his public service. After proving he remains unwilling to back commonsense gun-safety measures, Rubio’s now cozying up to an extreme anti-LGBT group, Florida Renewal Project, and headlining one of their events in Orlando.

Rubio laughably claims the event is “a celebration of faith,” but the truth is it’s a celebration of anti-LGBT hatred and marginalization, headlined by veritable who’s who of anti-gay activists. Speakers at the event have, among other things:

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In the aftermath of the attack on the Pulse nightclub, Donald Trump journeyed to Manchester, New Hampshire and claimed that he was the “real friend” of LGBTQ Americans.

Trump is now marking the two month anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre with an appearance in Orlando–blocks away from the site of the Pulse shooting–at a meeting of the extreme anti-LGBT group, Florida Renewal Project. Trump’s kind words in the aftermath of the Pulse massacre were nothing but a display of callous political opportunism. This week, he’s getting back to his anti-LGBTQ roots.

Through his words and actions Trump has demonstrated that he is no friends of LGBTQ Americans. In January Trump appeared on Fox NewsSunday and said he would appoint Supreme Court Justices who would reverse marriage equality. A week later, Trump reaffirmed his position while on ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.